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Carangidae
bluefin trevally
Caranx melampygus
Fish Reaching One Hundred Seventeen Centimeters in the Hawaiian Islands
bluefin trevally is known from Indo-Pacific as a fish. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 117 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Carangidae
- Genus
- Caranx
- Maximum length
- 117 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: Red Sea and East Africa to Ducie Island, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to New Caledonia. Eastern Central Pacific: Mexico to Panama (Ref. 9283 ). Hybrid with Caranx sexfasciatus found in Hawaii (Ref. 58422 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

